This collection consists of the correspondence of Mary ELiza Bradbury, an Elkton, Maryland, school teacher who established and taught at her own school, and tutored African-American children on Sundays. The letters, written to Lewis H. Jackson, her friend, suitor, and husband after 1856, offer glimpses of everyday life in mid-19th century Maryland and chronicle local events, Bradbury's school, her family, and her religious experiences in the Methodist Church.

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Mary Eliza Bradbury papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.

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